Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Gabriel García Márquez

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"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry."

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"'It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality.' The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."

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"In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think."

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